and i don't think high culture makes us into better human beings. this is one of george steiner's great hobby horses how is it that they can play schuman absolutely beautifully and the next day go to work i don't think that it is all that mysterious, nor do i think that higher education makes it into more. i really do think it is a question of, as i said, of circumstances. and i suppose if you think of the more recent war is a dilemma because if you think about the monopoly of the force, saddam hussein certainly monopolized the force in his state and a brutal manner it was a state in which torture was widespread and people were gassed. he was a torturer. he monopolized trade one could argue there are things people fear more than a brutal dictatorship and its anarchy in which it's every man for himself and chaos, which we see to some extent in libya now and to some extent iraq and that isn't well that means things would have been better if we left saddam hussein alone, that it is something that people should think about a little bit more before they